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INFORMATION. 



Copyrighted February 10, 1885, by A L. 
Ferry, 

All rights reserved. 

Bend for circular containing information in 
iegard to cast of perfect head. 

This cast will be of great aid to Phrenologi- 
cal students, as lack of symmetry and balance 
in beads will be readily detected after the eye 
lias become acquainted with the proper pro- 
portions. 

Price of book, 50 cents. 

.Marking of chart, 50 cents. 

Verbal examination, with privilege of ask- 
ing information in regard to marriage, choice 
of trade, &e., $1.00. 

For further information address the author, 
Washington, D. C. 



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"Make his form and forces square; 
For the labors lie must dare." 

(Diameter, eight inches.) 




THE COMING MAN. 



" There growing slowly old at ease. 
No faster thau his planted trees. 



He may, by reason of his age, 

In schemes of broader scope engage ;. 

(Circumference, twenty-five inches.) 




THE COMING MAN. 



" Then shall we have a man of the sphere, 
Fit to grace the solar year." 

— Emerson 



_6 — 
PAN. 

u He is the essence that enquires ;, 
He is the axis of the star ; 
He is the sparkle of the spar ; 
He is the heart of every creature ; 
He is the meaning of each feature.' * 

CREATION. 

HEALTH. 
"With one drop sheds form and feature/* 

BEAUTY. 
"With the next a special nature," 

SELF. 
"The third adds heat's indulgent spark/' 

LOVE. 
u The fourth gives light which eats the dark/* 

WISDOM. 
** Into the fifth Himself he flings/' 

PURITY. 
And conscious Lav/ is king of kings/ * 
PERFECTION. 

''Nature centers into balls, 
And her proud ephemeralsv 
Fast to surface and outside, 
Scan the profile of the sphere, 
Knew they what that signified — 
A new genesis were here." 

— Emetsan. 



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NEW CHART. 
(See Astrology.) 



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" I saw men go up and down, 

In the country and the town, 

With this tablet on their neck— 
4 Judgment and a judge we seek.* 

Not to mcnarchs they repair, 

Nor to learned jurist's chair ; 

But they hurry to their peers, 

To their kinsfolk and their dears ; 

Louder than with speech they pray—* 
'What am I? companion, say/ 

And the friend not hesitates 

To assign just place and mates ; 

Answers not in word or letter, 

Yet is understood the better ; 

Each to each a looking-glass, 

Reflects his figure that doth pass. 

Every wayfarer he meets 

What himself declared repeats, 

What himself confessed records, 

Sentences him in his words ; 

The form is his own corporeal form, 

And his thought the penal worm." 

— Emerson. 



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CHART OF 



MARKED BY 



AGE, DATE, 



This chart is marked according to a scale of 
sizes ranging from tweny to twenty-live inches 
for adults, and from fifteen to twenty inches 
for children, gaged by the circumference of 
the head on a line parallel with the lower part 
of the " Frontal Sinus." 

If any of the points in an adult head fall be- 
low the standard of the scale they will be 
marked " ~" ; and any points above the stand- 
ard in children's heads marked " x ". 

Key. — 1, Small; 2, Medium; 3, Average;. 
4 ; Excellent ; 5, Perfect, 



POINTS. 


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LONGEVITY 


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(1) Food 


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(2) Bite 


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(3) Bark 


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(4) Life .. . 


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(5) Force 






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STRENGTH 






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(1) Lungs 








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(2) Blood 








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(3) Heart 


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(4) Stomach 


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(5) Thorax 


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FACTS 


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(1) Form 


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(2) Size 


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(3) Balance ..... ... 


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(4) Color 


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(5) Relation 


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MEMORY 


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(1) Events 


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(2) Places 


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(8) Time 


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(4) Tune 












(•")) Language 










SYSTEM 










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POINTS. 

REASON . 

(1) Analogy ......... 

(2) Causality ........... 

(3) Construction 

(4) Calculation 

(5) Order 

HARMONY. . 

Mate . . 

Pets 


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Home 

Friends ■ . . 

Society . . 

PRUDENCE 

Application 

Virtue 

Ego 

Will 


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Law 








SELF 

Faith 

Man , . . 

Charity .... 

Hope 










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PERFECTION 


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EXPLANATION. 

Longevity — Long life. Breadth of head 
between the ears. 

The perfect head will measure eight inches 
in diameter at this point. 

Longevity depends on the full development 
of the five following faculties : 

Food ( Aliinentivencss) — Love of food. 

Bite ( Destructiveness) — Power to destroy 
or execute. 

Bark ( Combat iven ess) — Desire to drive. 

Life (Vitativeness) — Love of life. 

Force ( Amativeness) — Love of physical ex- 
ercise. 

Health is necessary to longevity, and the 
five points of the star designate the five physi- 
ognomical signs of health. 

Lungs — Breathing .entirety through the nose 
is necessarj 7 to protect the lungs. Such mode 
of breathing broadens the nostrils. 

Blood — The rosy color of the lips and skin 
and clearness of complexion denote purity of 
blood. 

Stomach — Full cheeks result from the secre- 
tion of saliva. The :r/ixture of such saliva with 
food is necessary to secure proper digestion. 

Thorax — High and broad cheek-bones ac- 
company a full deep chest. 

Beauty is a result of the perfect develop- 
ment of these five points of health, and 
proper exercise is necessary to attain this end. 



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Facts gives the perception and memory of 
facts, of which Form, Size, Balance, Color, 
and Eelation, together with the remainder of 
the impressions received through the five 
senses — viz: feeling, tastings smelling, hear- 
ing, seeing — are attributes. 

Memory retains impressions received through 
the senses in an associated form, as of Events, 
Places, Time, Tune, and Language. 

System— Deduction from facts is the only 
method of arriving at correct conclusions, and 
this is done by Order, Calculation, and Con- 
struction, with the aid of Causality and Com- 
parison. 

Wisdom results from a perfect development 
of all the intellectual faculties. 

Harmony results from a perfect development 
of all the points necessary to longevity, health, 
perception, memory, system, and wisdom. 

Love depends on the full development of — * 

Mate (Conjugality) — Love of opposite sex ; 

Pets (Philoprogenitiveness) — Love of chil- 
dren and pets ; 

Home (Tnhabitiveness) — Love of home ; 

Friends (Adhesiveness) — Love of special 
. friends ; and 

Society — Love of society. 

Strength — The compact texture of the limbs 
with good development of the points of health 
denotes strength and activity of the body and 
brain, as there is harmony through the entire 
system. The exercise necessary to produce 



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strength and activity of body produces strength 
and activity of mind. 

Prudence — Discretion or caution. 

Temperance denotes the harmonious work- 
ing together of the Love and Self faculties. 

Application is necessary to achieve any ex- 
cellence, which achievement is necessary to 
cultivate the faculties which give self - apprecia- 
tion and self-reliance: 

Virtue — Morality. 

Ego — Belief in self. 

Law — -Appreciation of justice; 

Will — Determination. 

Self — The full development of the last five 
faculties is necessary to give the requisite man- 
liness of character which allows of no imposi- 
tion. These must be balanced by the- group of 
faculties which produces purity, sympathy, and 
charity. 

Purity results from the harmonious develop- 
ment of all the other faculties. 

Faith is a step of the intellect toward 
Divine conception. 

Man — Appreciation of Nature's crowning 
work. 

Charity — Knowledge of the true motive 
underlying all human action turns contempt 
to pity, and causes charity. 

Hope springs eternal in the human brenst. 

Eternal Pan — Conception of Pan, the God 
of the shepherds who perceived the Star of 
Bethlehem and received the talisman: u On 



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Earth Peace, Good Will Toward Men." 

PERFECTION— The perfect head measures 
twenty-five inches in circumference, and i~ a 
perfect sphere, being full enough in the health 
points to make perfect beauty and harmony. 

The only way to restrain faculties is to culti- 
vate others, and entire attention must be paid 
to each organ or group of organs to develop 
them. Every defective point causes discord, 
from which results more or less misery, 

The most important development must be 
attended to first, or, in other words, there can 
only he upward growtn by commencing at the 
root or underlying principle. 

^Nature loves balance, and excessive develop- 
ments are necessary for protection against exist- 
ing evils. Remove the cause and .Nature will 
right herself. " Water seeks its level," no 
higher, no lower. 

Health is the first and absolutely necessary 
condition for improvement, and as that is 
greater or less, so will there be more or less 
harmony. 

Food contains the elements which are nec- 
essary to health and activity, and it can only 
be digested and appropriated by the body 
when it is in certain conditions. 

Diamonds, charcoal, sugar, butter, white- 
wheat flour, molasses; lard, fats, rice, and the 
principal ingredients of cakes and pastries are 
almost eytiiely composed of carbon or heating 
material. Of these articles, diamonds and 



charcoal are incapable of digestion ; fats, &c., 
are very hard to digest, while sugar is digested 
rapidly. None of these carbonaceous foods 
will sustain active life- The slightest action 
causes waste of muscular tissue and nerve- 
force, the elements for supplying which are not 
contained in the above-named articles except 
in insufficient proportions. The proper articles 
of food are those which are easily digested and 
contain just enough of each of the elements to 
supply all wastes, thus keeping the body in 
good repair and health. 

The wheat grain (Graham flour) has been 
adopted by scientists as a standard of proper 
proportions, for which it is valuable, as it con- 
tains m itself all the elements necessary to 
isustain an average degree of mental and physi- 
cal activity ; but the proportions sought for in 
food must depend entirely on the expenditures 
of force, whether physical or mental, or both. 

By reference to the accompanying table, 
and the adoption of the wheat-grain as a 
standard, a properly proportioned meal may 
probably be selected from the average private 
or boarding-house bill of fare. 

This table was selected after the author had 
carefully consulted the works of Liebig. Fos- 
ter, Draper, Bellows, and others, and repre- 
sents food in its natural or raw state, the pro- 
portions of which are frequently changed by 
cooking or mode of preparing. 

Chemical analysis of the brine in which fish 



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or meat has been prepared show that it con- 
tains the soluble phosphates necessary for sup- 
ply of nerve or brain force, which have been 
dissolved and extracted'by the chemical action 
of the brine. 

Soaking articles in water often deprives 
them of their soluble properties, which makes 
them almost worthless as articles of food. 

Grain grown in different climates often con- 
tains different proportions of nutritious ele- 
ments, which fact explains the slight variance 
in the tables of proportions arranged by differ- 
ent chemists. 

Meats are shown by the table to contain the 
life-sustaining elements in fair proportion, but 
its carbonaceous elements are in the form ot 
oil, which partially resists the action of the 
saliva, which % necessarily impedes digestion, 
causing the food to pass through the stomach 
until it reaches a position where it can be acted 
upon by the pancreatic juices of the second 
stomach before it is thoroughly digested. 

The stomach can contain but a limited quan- 
tity of water, and soups, according to their 
watery consistency, fail to supply the amounnt 
of nutrition necessary to an active life, and 
their rapid passage is apt to deprive them of 
the benefit of the saliya 

Oat-meal and milk, mush and milk, bread 
and milk, and, indeed, all soft foods, should be 
classed with soups, and should not be eaten 
except with some solid food, as bread, which 



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requires action of the jaws, necessary to induce 
a, proper flow of saliva. When the saliva is 
not used it ceases to he secreted. Teeth decay 
for want of proper exercise and attention. 

The effects of alcohol, opium, tobacco, tea, 
and coffee are injurious to the system, and 
perfect development demands their absolute 
disuse. 

There is an essential difference in the pro- 
portion of the elements of the meat of stall-fed 
animals and those which have their liberty. 

All fruits in common use are nicely propor- 
tioned in their raw condition Some and most 
of the present methods of preserving impair 
their value. The carbonaceous elements of 
fruits are already in the form of sugar, into 
which starch and oil are turned in the process 
of digestion. 

Raw fruits have rare medicinal value. Busi- 
ness disasters, death of friends, and other sor- 
row-producing causes, are almost immediately 
followed by loss of appetite and derangement 
of the system through sympathetic action- 
Fruit, being rapidly digested and assimulated, 
and the most solid fruits being entirely capa- 
ble of sustaining life, and abounding with 
waste material, so necessary to open the sys-* 
tern and keep it clean and active, will be found, 
with proper nursing and rest, to produce bet- 
ter results than any disorganized elements 
which may be taken as medicine. 

r ihe effects of cold, from which arise yio&t 



Nutritious elements of 



Wheat 

Oats 

%e 

Northern corn . . 
Southern corn. . 
Buckwheat. . . . 

Beans 

Peas 

Rice 

Beef 

Mutton 

Chicken 

Fish (average) 
Oys ers ..„<>... 
Ei^ffs 



Butter 

Cheese 

Cow-milk . . . 
Human-milk. 
Potatoes 



Sweet-potatoes. 
Cauliflower. . . . 

Turnips 

Cabbage 

Apples. ....... 

Parsnips 







i Bono 


Carbon. 


Muscle 


i and 


69.8 


01.5 . 


66,4 


17.0 


03.0 


71.5 


13.8 


01.7 


73.0 


12.0 


01.0 


45.0 


35.0 


04.0 


75.4 


08.6 


01.8 


57.7 


24.0 


03.5 


60.0 


23.4 


02.5 


79.5 


06.5 


00.5 


30.0 


15.0 


05.0 


40.0 


12.5 


03.5 , 


35.0 


20.0 


04.0 , 


00.5 


17.0 


05.0 


00.0 


10.0 


02.0 


29.0 


33.0 


10.0 


100.0 


00.0 


00.0 


19.0 


65.0 


07.0 


08 


05.0 


01.0 


07.0 


03.0 


00.5 - 


26.5 


01.5 


02.9 


22.5 


14.0 


00.9 


03.6 


06.4 


01.0 


04.6 


01.1 


00.5 , 


05.0 


04.0 


01.0 ' 


10.0 


05.0 


01.0 


07.0 


01.2 


01.0 



Notes. — This table was culled from the more extensive 
table in A. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating/' 

There are two ways of proving the qualities of food — 
one by chemical analysis, ami the other and most reliable, 
by individual experimenting. I have tried the latter and 
found that it agrees with the former. 



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of the chronic diseases, are the result of indi- 
gestion, and living on raw fruit from the time 
the first symptoms are discovered, will effect m 
speedy cure 

Physicians give in disorganized condition 
what should be sought in organized forms in 
food. Organized food is Nature's method, and 
that to which the system is adapted, and a de- 
viation from that method is attended with 
more or less risk, which should be avoided. 

A. J. Bellows "Philosophy of Eating" is the 
most thorough and comprehensive digest of the 
food question the author has yet seen, and 
which he recommends to those who wish to 
know more of this most important of all sub- 
jects. 

Chemistry is yet in its infancy, and we shall 
have to wait for future discovery to teach us 
the best food for " The Coming Man, "probably 
u Monadnoc's " gift, prophesied by Emerson : 

M There's fruit upon my barren soil 
Costlier far than wine or oil. 
There's a berry blue and gold — 
Autumn-ripe, its juices hold 
Sparta' b stoutness, Bethlehem's heart, 
Asia's rancor, Athens' art, 
Blowsurc Britain's secular might, 
And the German's inward sight. 
I will give my son* to eat 
Best of Pan's immortal meat, 
Bread to eat and juice to drain ; 
So the coinage of his brain 
Shall not be forms of stars, but stars, 
Nor pictures pale, but Jove and Mars," 



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Food regulates the supply of life-force. 

When unbroken health has been secured by 
obedience to laws, and the physical man devel- 
oped by systematic exercise, then will be time 
enough to seek mental culture. The most im- 
portant truth science has to teach will have 
been learned in such pursuit, namely, the 
speedy and inevitable punishment of either a 
wilful or ignorant violation of law, or, in other 
words, the universal prevalence of unchangea- 
ble laws, which are no respector of person or 
thing, but sway man and universe alike, happi- 
ness awarding obedience, and misery violation. 

Study and obey laws, not National or Bibli- 
cal laws, but Nature's laws, for the former are 
all absorbed in the latter. 

Wherever there is advancement there is pos- 
sibility of perfection. 

Human progress means human perfection. 

Everything has a limit, human knowledge is 
no exception. 

The appearance of continued and unbroken 
happiness will announce its approach. 



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ASTROLOGY. 

The leading features of this new system are : 

First, The adoption of a standard perfect 
head ; 

Second, The reduction of Phrenology to a 
mathematical science ; 

Third, A new chart ; 

Fourth} The rearranging of the faculties in 
groups of live ; and 

Fifth, Substituting for the word ct Phrenol- 
ogy " the word u Astrology," as more appropri- 
ate for the " star-system. " 
, These changes, with a general reduction of 
the truths taught in Phrenology to first princi- 
ples, showing the relation of the faculties to 
harmonious development, has necessitated the 
changing of names, which gave the opportunity 
of dispensing with long technicalities. 

There can only be but one reason why a sci- 
ence, so important to the welfare of each indi- 
vidual as Phrenology is, should be s:>. generally 
misunderstood as it has been, and that reason 
is that it lacked simplicity. 

Dr. Gall was the founder of Phrenology, and 
located and named a number of the faculties. 
Since that time his followers have made addi- 
tions and changes ; but a trustworthy standard, 
as a gage of perfection by which all heads 
might be studied and charts marked, has never 
before been produced. 



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The chief differences or iinprovemenients 
made by the author in this new system of 
mental science, are : 

I. The association of Individuality, Form, 
Size, Weight, and Color, with the added fac- 
ulty, Relation, under the head u Facts." 

The definition of Individuality is knowledge 
and memory of things ; of Form, forms ; Size, 
sizes ; Weight, relation to the perpendicular ; 
and Color, colors. 

The four latter merely deal with some of the 
qualities or components of the former, the 
rest of the qualities of a thing being detected 
by the senses of feeling, tasting, smelling, and 
hearing, which need the perception of their 
relation to a thing. The function of Relation 
is also to perceive the relation of each to all. 
A nice development of this faculty can be seen 
in the pictures of Emerson and Goethe. 

A harmonious development of all these points 
is necessary for a quick and correct perception 
and memory of facts. 

II. The association of the faculties known as 
Eventuality, Locality, Time, Tune, and Lan- 
guage, under the head " Memory," which em- 
braces only memoiy of ideas, idea meaning, a a 
general notion or conception formed by gen- 
eralization." 

A little thought will show that the memory 
of events and localities is made up of the mem- 
ory of a number of associated i repressions re- 
ceived through the eyes or other senses. 



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The regular heart-beat is the human time- 
keeper, and its impressions, with the other 
means of determining duration, associated with 
figures, lettem, words, objects, sounds, &c, are 
probably the basis of time and tune. 

Sound means nothing until associated with 
words, time, objects, &c, and then it mean 
tune or language. 

We remember verbal language from forms 
of letters, their association into words, and the 
association of words into sentences, as well as 
by the sound made in pronouncing and the 
length of time taken in utterance. 

All impressions being received through the 
senses, and meaning different things according 
to their associations, it is very difficult to ana- 
lyze the sources of these memories. 

Every faculty of the mind probably remem- 
bers the ideas relating to its special growth, 
although not remembering from whence came 
the first impressions, which are remembered 
by the vaiious faculties which first received or 
sprung from the impressions, 

A full development of " Facts" is most ea 
scntial to an excellent memory, as the separate 
memories of qualities are so many aids. 

A memory of associated ideas, without mem- 
ory of the facts which are the primal and only 
source of growth, can be attained from books 
and teachers, but is of little value for progres- 
sive harmonious growth. Those who have an 
abnormal growth based on second-baud infor. 



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tnation may be theorists and ornaments of so- 
ciety, but the positive people who make society 
and lead the other class from stage to stage 
have a knowledge of facts, do not know much 
but know what to do with what they know, 
giving their facts with their theories, without 
which, theories are useless. 

The value of knowledge is not in attainment 
but in application. 

The teaching of associated ideas without the 
facts is one of the principle errors made in the 
present method of instruction in schools, col- 
leges, seminaries, &c, which error certain work- 
ers arc now trying to correct by their " kinder- 
garten " system for children. 

III. The association of the faculties known 
as Comparison, Causality, Construct! veness, 
Calculation, and Order, under the head " Rea- 
son." These faculties are employed m deduc- 
ing from Facts and Memory the material for 
the growth and gratification of the other facuL 
ties. 

Comparison is reasoning by comparison or 
analog)-. Judgment is based on comparison. 
Our laws are the standard decided upon as to 
what man should do. What man docs is com- 
pared with this standard, and when the two 
conflict he is condemned. We draw our stand- 
ard of human nature from some of our acquain- 
tances or from a conception deduced f:\>m ac- 
quaintances. If the standard is a poor one we 
will be poor judges of human nature ; if a true' 



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one, we will read character accurately at a 
glance, for every feature and expression has a 
meaning, which feature or expression becomes 
embodied in a standard of excellence or de- 
pravity. The comparison is afterwards made 
instinctively, and impressions received at first 
sight. 

Causality, Constructiveness, Calculation, and 
Order, make the laws. Order deals with ar- 
rangement of simple forms or facts. These are 
multiplied by Calculation, while Constructive- 
ness deals with facts, forms, sizes, colors, and 
relations, in simple, complex, and compound 
association, arrangement, and rearrangement, 
while causality deduces or prophesies results 
from the material thus constructed. 

These five faculties form the • mill which 
grinds the grain to provide for the necessities 
of harmonious life, and a single wheel in this 
mill being at fault, puts the whole system of 
machinery out of gear, creating discord. 

Constructiveness is the center of this group, 
and is, essentially, the mathematical faculty ; 
and the harmonious working together of these 
intellectual faculties develops system, which 
joins them with cxecutiveness, while Harmony 
represents the harmonious working together of 
all the groups of faculties. 

IV. The association of the faculties dealing 
with perception, memory, reasoning, or deduc- 
ing under the head " Wisdom." 

V. The association of the faculties known as 



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Alimentiveness, Destructiveness,, Combative- 
ness, Yitativeness, under the head a Longev- 
ity," and changing their names to Food, Bite, 
Bark, Life, and Force 

Alimentiveness means love of food ; De- 
structiveness, the ability to execute or biting 
tendency ; Combativeness, the energetic, driv- 
ing or barking tendency. 

Combativeness was thus named by Phrenolo- 
gists, who found a peculiar development in peo- 
ple who wasted a good deal of strength without 
accomplishing great results. The deficiency of 
the forward part of Destructiveness, working 
with System, which gives the calculated accu- 
racy which makes the bite, is necessarily the 
cause of this peculiar development , Combat ive- 
ness being the back part of Destructiveness. 

Vitativeness means love of life. There could 
be no life without love of life, and there could 
be no progression without the u love of the 
best " in life eternally working at the center 
of all being. . 

Amativeness has been associated with love 
of sex ; but experiments by Dalton and other 
scientists proved the relation of that part of the 
brain with physical strength or control of 
physical action, and the love of sex is merely 
p conjugal tic, which is the function of Mate. 

VI. The addition of two of the five infalli- 
ble physiognomical signs of health. 

VIL The association of the social faculties 
under the head *• Love," and the changing of 



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their names from long to short technicalities, 
namely , Conjugalit} 7 , or union for life, to Mate; 
Philoprogenitix eness, or love of children and 
pets, to Pets ; Inhabitiveness, or love of home, 
to Home ; Adhesiveness, or love of particular 
friends, to Friends, and the addition of Society. 

Each of these names, as well as those of the 
following groups of faculties, needs the prefix 
of the words " love of," or a appreciation of,'" 
which must be understood. 

VIII The association under the head of 
" Self" and changing the names of the facul- 
ties known as Continuity, Caution, Secretive- 
ness, Approbativeness, Self-esteem, Conscien^ 
tiousness, and Firmness, to Application, Pru- 
dence, Virtue, Ego, Law, and Will, as more 
simple and appropriate. 

Application is necessary to all excellence, and 
working with Prudence and joining the Self 
to the Love or Social faculties produces tem- 
perance of action or careful action. 

Virtue is the result of the working together 
of the faculties known as Caution and Con-* 
Scientiousness. 

Love of praise or Approbativeness is a func-- 
tion of Society. 

Praise is only an expression of appreciation,- 
and is especially relished by those who lack ap- 
preciation of self ; but the better we appreci- 
ate self the less we care for the approval of 
other, and especially of those whom we have 
reason to believe are not acquainted with or 



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cannot appreciate our merits. A friend's sin- 
cere expression of appreciation is relished by all. 

Secretiveness, so-called, is lack of calculated 
accuracy. People who are weak or are contin- 
ually making mistakes necessarily become siy 
and timid, it being their only means for de- 
fence, and will disappear when the cause is 
removed by the adoption of a sk>w r , sure, posi- 
tive rule of action. 

Ego gives the appreciation of individual 
rights, and Law, of eternal justice, while Will 
gives determination to stand and tight for 
what we think is right, which may be justice 
or injustice, according to our accurate knowl- 
edge of universal laws, without which knowl- 
edge we can not be just to self or others 

IX. The association under the head u Pur- 
ity " and changing the names of the faculties 
known as Sublimity, Ideality, Suavity, Human 
Nature, Imitation, Spirituality, Hope, Benevo- 
lence, and Veneration, to Faith, Man, Hope, 
Charity, and Eternal Pan. 

Appreciation of human nature or Man in tho 
front part of the head balances the apprecia- 
tion of self or Ego in the back part of the head. 
The former has to do with human nature in 
general, the latter with human nature in self. 
The growth of Ego can only come from per- 
gonal success or excellence, and that of the 
other from the discovery of laws or underlying 
principles governing all human action. 

The separate development of Ego is tyranny ; 



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ba lanced by Human Nature it leaves self-re- 
spect. Each man is his own teacher, and can 
see no higher than his own head or character* 
PtiHty makes the true and only aristocracy. 

This faculty of appreciation of man embraces 
Suavity, or agreeableness, and Imitation, which 
constitute the dramatic arid artistic talent. 

The secret of dramatic success has been re- 
duced to the one principle, " Be natural." You 
cannot act what you cannot feeL A clown 
cannot act the saint unless they have feelings 
ill common, and vice versa. 

Fools can fool only fools. 

Agreeableness is only acting and imitation^ 
and those who are in harmony with Nature- 
and the universe have an expression and per- 
ception that cannot be imitated or deceived. 
Sugar coating may be nice for pills • but it is 
the truth which hits the mark, whether adorned 
or unadorned, and it cuts only those who are 
in error for their good. When simple truth 
cannot be spoken, let man hold eternal silence. 

Art consits in imitating or cultivating Na- 
ture. It has ^opied it now must cultivate. It 
lias wrcncbed itself in its endeavors to pad> 
double, and patch up coverings for embossing 
of rhe human form to make it approach some 
fashion-maker's model, the origin of which few 
; eem to know or care about, and the author 
iuis Hot been able to decide whether it is the 
w.uli of resurrection or contortion— it cer- 
ta'.nlv is not human. 



31 



A perfect form needs only a simple cover- 
ing — an ostentatious one it makes ridiculous. 

Freedom of limbs, absolutely necessary to 
perfect health and muscular development, de- 
mands the adoption of simple and loose cloth- 
ing by males and females. 

The modeling of the human form b}^ exer- 
cise surpasses all. sculptures' art. How can 
art even approximate iiiwStone the rapid and 
nameless changing of expression and movement 
of muscle and form of the childish beauty, 
which melts to music the hardest heart. The 
most precious of all knowledge is that which 
will prolong those charms through old age. 

Paintings may transfer colors ; but not the 
perfumes, the sunshine, the zephyrs, and the 
ever changing shades of light and shadow, and 
varying colors of the dancing green leaves and 
grass-blades, or the melodious concord of bird 
and insect voices, which make up the perfect 
whole— Nature. 

Faith embraces Ideality, Sublimity, AJirth- 
f ulness. and Spirituality. It is a step of the 
intellect toward divine conception. 

Ideality or imagination is but higher deduc- 
tion, and a result of the harmonious working 
of all of the facujtles, which produces an ap- 
preciation of and faith in coming excellence. 
Man cannot conceive of any thing beyond com- 
plete harmony, which is what we love in Na- 
ture, it being the grand and sublime. 

Music is harmony ; 



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Poetry is harmony ; 

Beauty is harmony ; 

Love is harmony ; 

Happiness is harmony ; 

And the breath of the Eternal Pan, working" 
at the center of all life, is love of happiness or 
Harmony. 

Mirthfulness is but an expression of harmony, 
and its keenest sensation does not always pro- 
voke laughter. Laughter is as often satirical 
as it is expressive of pleasure or harmony. 

The intellect detects incongruities, which 
may provoke laughter, but, with a love of the 
human race, a comparison of man's present con- 
dition with what might and should be produces 
sorrow, of which laughter is sometimes as. ex- 
pressive as tears. Wit is satire. There is noth- 
ing ridiculous but ignorance. 

Ilope springs eternal in the human breast, 
and the greater our harmony, the clearer can 
we see the dawn of eternal day — on earth se- 
cured, in heaven perpetuated. 

When harmony approaches, envy, vanity, 
jealousy, and littleness slink out of sight. 

These but aiise from man's ignorance of the 
true means of satisfying his everlasting wants, 
or rather, necessities. Man is only greedy 
when lie is hungry or sick. Not even beasts 
rob or murder for the sake of creating; misery. 
The cat plays with a mouse the same as -with 
its tail or a ball of yarn — for the sake of amuse- 
ment — and the fortitude which enables it to 



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sit and watch a hole in the floor for hours, 
allows it to put off its repast awhile for the 
sake of a " little fun." Keep the animals well- 
fed and they won't eat each other, and if man 
seems different from the other animals in this 
respect it is because he has more wants without 
knowing how to gratify them all. 

Hope and Faith may be inherited, but they 
cannot be developed except by the harmonious 
action of all the live groups of faculties, which 
is their primary and only source of growth, and 
is necessary for progression. 

Every man has his own conception of God, 
ever has had, and ever shall have, and the true 
conception of Eternal Pan, the God of Nature, 
will probably not be reached except b} T the 
perfect man, the beauty and harmony of whose 
life will undoubtedly surpass the richest dream 
of the present race. Before man understands 
the laws which control man and planet, he may 
suppose a great God interposes in his insignifi- 
cant personal affairs ; but afterwards he knows 
him as a God of grand, incomprehensible and 
unchangeable laws, and that he must obey 
those laws to deserve or receive blessing. 

Man's only source of knowledge or concep- 
tion are the feelings or impressions received 
through his senses, from which reason makes 
all deductions. 

Prophecy is the result of such conception, 
and the wise prophet is but a mathematician 
who deals with the problems of existence — 



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what is and what has been being the factors, 
what shall be, the result. 

Law, Philosophy, Theology, Medicine, Chem- 
istry, Astronomy, Mechanics — all sciences, 
trades, and professions — are but different 
branches of mathematics, and a knowledge of 
their basis of facts, principles of deduction, and 
results, in their relation to happiness and 
utility, is all that is worth knowing. 

It is a common and indisputable assertion 
that " figures won't lie," and figures merely 
represent facts. If there are any doubts or 
falsities in doctrines or theories, they come 
from incorrect deductions, and there must be 
a reduction to first principles or facts to dis- 
cover the cause of all differences. There are 
many systems, but only one true and underly- 
ing principle. No rule has an exception. It 
ceases to be a rule when an exception is found. 

X. The disuse of the word " Acquisitive- 
ness," the definition of which is " love of 
money." 

Money is only a means, and but a toy to 
supply the wants of the u love of the best." 

What is wealth to man money cannot pur- 
chase — namely, health, wisdom, and purity 

The fact that a certain portion of the head 
was exceptionally well filled out in capitalists 
and wealthy men gave rise to this name ; but 
men who have achieved success in any great 
undei taking are persons having vitality and 
syseni, which cause such development. Sys- 



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tern results in economy. Ask any honest suc- 
cessful merchant to what he owes his success 
and he will inform you that it was to the 
employment of system — namely, the adoption 
of a few simple, reliable principles by which to 
conduct business. 

The proprietors of lotteries take no chances, 
all the chances are taken by their poor victims. 
Successful insurance agents and monopolists 
are those who calculate con ectly. If producers 
would live by system, they would bring capi- 
talists and monopolists down to share their 
labors, and all would be happier. 

Standard. — Symmetry, balance, length, 
height, and breadth of head, with health and 
strength, are the measure of power and excel- 
lence. Love and perception produce length ; 
purity and self-appreciation produce height ; 
and vitality produces breadth. 

The active faculties are transferred to off- 
spring, and this fact accounts for the malfor- 
mation of many heads. Force may be inher- 
ited without wisdom, which becomes a curse. 
Hope and Faith may be inherited without the 
faculties necessary for their growth, which is 
also a curse, and amounts to insanity. These 
abnormal developments can be easily detected, 
as the fullest development of head in theorists 
and visionary people is around the top forehead. 

Insanity and Imbecility are either the result 
of inheritance or weakness, and is a lack of har- 
mony iii the entire character or make-up. 



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The brain need not be abnormal or atrophied 
when a nicely-shaped head does poor work, but 
is either biased by false teachings or hindered 
for want of the supplies necessary to give 
activity to all its faculties. 

Bad habits are tenacious, and so are good 
ones. Good and bad are governed by the same 
law, and result from harmony or deficiency in 
development. . Instinct is the result of habits 
either individually cultivated or inherited. 

The longest line of development should be 
that from the lowest part of the frontal sinus 
(see chart and perfect head) to a point exactly 
opposite in the back head. 

All heads should measure a trifle over eight 
inches, by caliper measurement at this point. 

For symmetry and balance it is necessary 
that the head should have its fullest develop- 
ments on the lines extending from these points 
over the top head, where the two brain hemis- 
pheres meet, and around the center of the side 
head, all parts balancing each other on an axis 
directly above the center between the openings 
of the ears. The head must symmetrical ty 
curve from the lowest point of the frontal sinus 
to a parallel point just above the opening of the 
ears, and from that to the center of the back- 
head, the whole top head curving symmetri- 
cally upward from that line to the center point, 
which should be highest directly above the 
center of a line between the two ear openings. 

Lon;;th ? balance, and symmetry, will give ex« 



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cellenee, but breadth of head is necessary to 
long; life and great muscular strength and force. 

The author adopts the gage of twenty-five 
inches, (that being exclusive of the thickness 
of the skull and frontal sinus, the examiner to 
make allowance for that by conclusions drawn 
from general build or temperament) for the 
circumference of a standard perfect head, which 
must resemble a perfect sphere in symmetry 
and balance, because he has never seen or heard 
of a head of that description, and the propor* 
tions for harmony agree with the conclusions 
resultant from live years of continuous study 
and observations in endeavors to solve the 
problem of the ages — u What is the matter 
with man-kind, and what will be the propor- 
tions of a perfect man " I have taken two 
courses of instruction in the American Insti- 
tute of Phrenology in New York city, which ig 
under the management of Fowler, Wells & Co.^ 
and pursued my observations in tbat city, Bos- 
ton, Philadelphia, and Washington, having had 
a chance to study the heads of the leading men 
in the country. 

There is a gentleman in this city whose head 
measures twenty-eight inches and a half in 
circumference and twenty-one inches over the 
top, from ear opening to ear opening, by tape 
measurement, and ten and one-half inches in 
length and eight and one-half inches in breadth 
by caliper measurement. His weight is one 
hundred and forty pounds, and he states that 



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his head increased in size most rapidly the first 
three }^ears of his life. 

To compare with this remarkable develop- 
ment we have the following description of the 
head of Ealph Waldo Emerson, for which we 
are indebted to a biography of Emerson by 
0. W. Holmes: " He wore a hat measuring 
six and seven-eights, which is equivalent to 
tw T enty-one inches and a quarter in circumfer- 
ence. The average size is from seven to seven 
and an eighth. so that his head was quite small 
in that dimension. It was long and narrow, 
but lofty, almost symmetrical, and of more 
nearly equal breadth in its anterior and pos- 
terior region than many or most heads." 

This agrees with Emerson's life and writings. 
If his head was of that circumference where 
the hat rests, and was long and narrow, lofty, 
and symmetrical, it probably touched, or very 
closely approximated, the front, back, and top 
line of the circle necessary for a head twenty- 
five inches in circumference, lacking only the 
side development which gives longevity and 
great muscular strength and endurance, which 
deficiency Emerson realized, and deplored in 
the following lines in " Terminus." 
" Curse, if thou wilt, thy sires, 
Bad husbands of their tires, 
Who, when they gave thee breath, 
Failed to bequeath 
The needful sinew stark as once, 
The baresark marrow to thy bones, 
But left a legacy of ebbing veins, 
Inconstant heat and nerveless reins." 



— 89 — 

Mr. Holmes' biography of Emerson is well 
"worth perusing, but the author of it made some 
bad errors, as is always the case when an in- 
consistent writer tries to criticise a consistent 
one. He accuses Emerson ofa lack of accuracy, 
which is Emerson's chief charm, and the one 
that places him above the heads of almost all 
other writers, and especially his biographer. 
His idealism is accurate deduction from facts. 
u Truth is stranger than fiction," always. 

Mr Holmes states- 

" He once corrected me in giving Flora Temple's time 
at Kalamazoo. I made a mistake of a quarter of a sec- 
ond, and he set me right. He was not always so exact in 
his memory, as I have shown in several instances." 

One of which instances is worth mentioning, 
as it speaks for itself. 

He found the following two lines merely 
quoted by Emerson without any credit : 

*■ The pulses of her iron heart 
Go beating through the storm," 

and with considerable presumption states that 
they must be an incorrect quotation of two 
lines of some of his own verses, which he quotes 
as follows : 

*' The beating of her restless neart 
Still sounding through the storm." 

But he is excusable, as, after caviling about 
the supposed change, he gives us the key to his 
own weakness in these words : u . But extreme 
accuracy was not one of Emerson's special gifts, 
and vanity whispers to the misrepresented 



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i versifier." Vanity whispers instead of wisdom. 
The author has not seen Mr Holmes' head, but 
he knows that it lacks symmetry, for heads ancf 
writings agree. Such a wise counsel as that 
which he quotes as Emerson's advice to a stu- 
dent who threatened to write an essay on 
Plato is not to be disregarded, namely, u When 
you strike at a king^ you must kill him." He 
might follow more of Emerson's advise and be 
benefitted : 

"Life is too short to waste 
In critic peep or cynic bark," 

"Up! mind thine own aim, and 
God speed the mark ( " 

The one great trouble tvith almost everybody 
is lack of system, and how well that deficiency 
corresponds to the shape of heads can be seen 
everywhere by everybody. Fowler, Wells & 
vb.'s ideal head lacks system, and resembles 
the average' head, as well as the head of its de- 
signer.- 

A lack of development of any of the facul- 
ties arises from one or more of the following 
causes : False teachings or ignorance ; lack of 
health and vitality necessary for harmonious 
growth ; or absorbtion of entire time and at- 
tention in business pursuits. 

The first can only be remedied by the reduc- 
tion of all knowledge to first principles ; the 
second, hy eating proper food and systemati- 
cally exercising ; and the latter can only be 
obviated by making wages correspond to wants 



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or bringing wants down to correspond with 
wages, until every man and woman is master 
of their own time, and not slaves to task-mas- 
ters, be they individuals or customers. Each 
person must be able to act according to their 
own wisdom if they desire harmonious devel- 
opment. These rights can only be secured by 
association and co-operation, and this is impos- 
sible while people lack system. Every person 
must do a part of the producing, and the pro- 
ducts of one person's labor must be equivalent 
to another person's labor before there is equal- 
ity, and certificates of labor instead of gold be 
the currency. As much as is necessary to pro- 
vide for a well-endowed person is necessary to 
provide for a weak person's wants, who is de- 
prived by ignorance or inheritance of the great- 
est boon man can enjoy. Who does not work, 
(unless invalid.) should not be allowed to eat 9 
no matter what their ancesters did. Our Na- 
tional Constitution gives us equal rights to life, 
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which 
isbeiied Iry our laws, which allow one man to 
live without work, and leaves another a beg- 
gar from birth, not even daring to appropriate 
enough land on which to raise food to sustain 
life. The principles of the Constitution must 
be stood by or the lies erased, whatever be- 
comes of the laws. Land, as well as air and 
water, are man's birthright— each to have as 
much as is necessary to secure independence, 
the rest common property, neither to be bought 



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or sold any more than the air we breathe. 
It may be impossible to secure this by laws or 
legislatures, but by co-operation everything is 
possible, and when people have a religion of 
facts, think facts, eat facts, sleep facts, and die 
for facts, facts and nothing but facts, taking 
no chances and making no mistakes, one step 
at a time and that a sure one, then, and not 
before, will men be freemen and live true to 
their highest nature. 

System is natural and blundering abnormal. 

Faculties cultivated by parents become 
instinct in children. 

A comparison of the magnificent horses seen 
on Fifth Avenue, New York city, with their 
haggard, careworn, avaricious, yellow -complex- 
ioned owners, shows that the horses are the 
noblest animals of the two. The beautiful 
horses show the result of scientific feeding and 
attention, the owners show the result of igno- 
rance and debauchery. They employed system 
in their business but not in their living The 
event of reducing such men to physical labor 
would bless them as well as mankind. 

Man is not a slave to man, but to his own 
appetites and passions. When he controls 
them he will be his own master. Plain clothes, 
plain food, and few physical wants will leave 
him free, with time and means for the cultiva- 
tion and enjoyment of his higher faculties. 

A chart of the head will prove a valuable 
guide to aid improvement, because it is marked 



48 



-according to actual measurements, and u fig- 
ures won't lie/' 

The fact that the world must be round and 
that one hemisphere most be balanced hj an- 
other hemisphere, or, in other words, that bal- 
ance and symmetry is the infallible law of the 
universe, drew Columbus across the water, and 
proves that the perfect head will be a perfect 
sphere. 

Our lingers and toes are in groups of five.; 
we have five senses ; five arms from the body ; 
the faculties group themselves into fives ; and 
the star, ever man's brightest symbol and great- 
est mystery appears to us with five points, and 
five times five, or twenty-five inches, will an- 
swer for the circumference of the standard 
perfect head till it is proved true or a better 
Standard discovered. A standard bushel is 
necessary in measuring grain, and a standard 
head is necessary for any accurate study of 
Phrenology. 

The perfect man will probably live hundreds 
of years, or as long as the Biblical records teil 
that he once lived. 

The average head measures from twenty-two 
to twenty-three inches in circumference, but 
it is oblong and lacks symmetry, and the ma- 
jority of the human race are invalids. 

Any careful observer, by adopting the sym- 
metrical head as a standard, and carefully 
studying the chart in this boo!;, will soon per- 
£ei\p that every shape of head has its accom- 



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panning peculiarity of personal action, and wrtfj 

practice be able to read character from the 
shape of the head and signs of health in the 
face as from an open book. 

The head is the only reliable indicator of 
character. Brain is developed by exercise, and 
man's inmost thoughts mold the shape of his 
skull. The acids carried by the blood dissolve 
and build up the bony material of the skull 
as rapidly as the character changes The hard 
in Nature always succombs to the soft; 

Faces express character, for there is harmony 
throughout Nature's works, and she ever speaks 
to man. in symbols 7 the key of which she places 
in her lover's brain. 

Trees, flowers, zephyrs, perfumes speak plaiu 
without a tongne. 

Animals tell their secret history to the 
naturalist. 

Strata and stones speak to the geologist. 

The God that created the universe inventedf 
this language and wrote these books. All that 
man knows they taught him. 

" The word unto the prophet spoken 
Was writ on tables yet unbroken j 
The word by seers or sibyls told. • 
In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, 
Still floats upon the morning wind, 
Still whispers to the willing mind. 
One accent of the Holy Ghost 
The heedless world has never lost/' 

Facts and mafomatical deductions from facts 
are the secret. 



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They were the founders of all religions. 

The stars shine now as in olden times. 

If man deduced religions truths from facts 
then he can now. 

Saint, poet, philosopher, scientist continually 
shake hands. 

Inspiration comes hack to reason, for it is 
reason's offspring. 

They held slaves, and supposed that special 
men and races were blessed and divine — we 
advocate man y s equality before his Creator, no 
special man, sect, or race, but all men, sects, 
and races are blessed and divine. 

From a divine Creator, nothing but divinity 
can flow. 

They believed woman was an inferior crea- 
tion — we are just learning to appreciate her 
equality. 

They wrote, " Man was created male and 
female " — we have pretended to endorse it, but 
the true meaning of that writing it but dawn- 
ing upon us. 

There can be but one perfect head. 

Boys and girls inherit equally from both 
parents ; but ignorance seeks to restrain the 
growth ► f the one and encourage the growth 
<>f I lie i*1 her, which has ever been a check to 
human progress, for all must advance together. 

They had Christ and Buddha — we have Em- 
erson, who has not supplanted, but absorbed 
all others. 

Through him speaks the Creator. 



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REVELATION, 



"SOl^G OF NATURE." 

''Time and thought were my surveyors, 
They laid their courses well, 
They boiled the sea, and piled the layers 
Of granite, marl, and shell. 

But he, the man-child rrlorious,-^- 
Where tarries he the while ? 
The rainbow shines his harbinger, 
The sunset gleams his smile. 

My boreal lights ieap upward, 
Forthright my planets roll, 
And still the mamchild is not born, 
The summit of the whole," 

ft Yet whirl the glowing wheels once more, 
And mix the bowl again ; 
Seethe, Fate ! the aneient elements, 
Heat, cold, wet, dry, and peace, and pain, 

Let war and trade and creeds and song 
Blend, ripen race on race, 
The sunburnt world a man shall breed 
Of all the zones and countless days." 

A perfect man has never been born. 

It comes from the mouth of a prophet, a 
greater than whom has never lived. 

Buddha taught harmony ; Christ taught di* 
vine man and love ; Emerson added divine 
men and wisdom— had they lived in the same 
era they would have been co-working Gods. 

Christ discovered his own divinity ; but not 
ts universality, 



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Emerson discovered that life was divinity 
working upward through all forms : 

" Yet spake yon purple mountain, 
Yet said yor ancient wood, 
That ni/rht or day, that love or crime, 
Leads all souls to the good." 

" The soul's pilgrimage and flight, 
In city or in solitude, 
Step by step lifts bad to good, 
Without halting, without rest, 
Lifting better up to best, 
Planting seeds of knowledge pure, 
Through earth to ripen, through heaven endure.'* 

" The fiend that man harries 
Is love of the Best ; 
Yawns the pit of the Dragon, 
Lit by rays from the Blest." 

Neglect libraries, sciences, professions, trades; 
but study Emerson. His poems contain his 
prophecies, his other works the explanation or 
line of deduction from facts. 

A student of all sciences, reader of histories 
and biographies, studying flowers, stars, man 
and God— abreast of the rising tide of the 
Nineteenth century discoveries or revelations, 
and leading a life of purity not surpassed by 
that of Christ, his eyes pierced the infinite. 

He wanted to know only what Man needs. 

Christ died for man, Emerson lived for man 
— which was the grander ? 

Emerson had a Christ to study, Christ had 
no Emerson ; but, after all, it is only another 
blossom of the perfect fruit which is yet to 
ripen 



48 



Unite Bethlehem's great heart to Emerson's 
infinite perception, and add the God of eter- 
nal justice, who makes Self and universe sub- 
ject to the same law, and the heavens draw 
down.. 

The scientists have decided that all forms of 
life are hut " Arrested and Progressive devel- 
opment." Of what ? There is but one an- 
swer ! " Of the various forms through which 
soul works upward toward perfection." 

Clothe soul witli the most beautiful dreams 
of human conception and they fade to ghastly 
paleness, for what are dreams but single vibra- 
tions of the perfect tune which puny man knows 
not yet how to prolong. 

The God of Nature is our Father, let us seek 
to be Gods by studying all of God's works. 

" Too long shut in strait and few, 
Thinly dieted on dew, 
I will use the world and sift it, 
To a thousand humors shift it, 
As you spin a cherry. 
O dolemi ghosts, and goblins merry 1 
O all you virtues, methods, mights, 
Means, appliances, delights, 
Reputed wrongs and braggart rights, 
Smug routine,, and things allowed, 
Minorities, things under cloud ! 
Hither ! take me, use me, fdl me, 
Vein and artery, though ye kill iuq!" 

Thus Emerson writes his own biography. 
He was the greatest of all mathematicians. 
Figures symbolize facts for bookworms; but 
not for this higher form, who lived — 



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u Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, 
Grass-buds, and caterpillar shrouds, 
Boughs on which the wild bees settle", 
Tints that spot the violet's petal, 
Why Nature loves the number five, 
And why the star-form she repeats : 
Lover of all things alive, 
Wonderer at all he meets, 
Wonderer chiefly at himself, 
Who can tell him what he is ? 
Or how meet in human elf 
Coming and past eternities ? 

Ever diving, sifting, gleaning, propounding 
the riddle he was solving — he ever remained a 
riddle, and ever will, to the cowardly and im- 
pure. Led by and never fearing God, his only 
care was not to make a false step. 

Truth is not complex, but simple, and babes 
can understand it. He put his verses to a 
a Test." 

" I hung my verses in the wind, 
Time and tide their faults may find. 
All were winnowed through and through, 
Five lines lasted sound and true ; 
Five were smelted in a pot 
Than the South more fierce and hot ; 
These the siroc could not melt, 
Fire their fiercer flaming felt, 
And the meaning Avas more white 
Than July's meridian light. 
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, 
Nor time unmake what poets know. 
Have you eyes to find the five 
Which five hundred did survive ?" 

the five lines describe God in creatures. 

" He is the essence that inquires ; 
He is the axis of the star ; 



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He is the sparkle of the spar ; 
He is the heart of every creature ; 
He is the meaning of each feature." 

Man is bat a tool in the hands of God. 

** The "World-soul knows his own affair, 
Forelooking, when he would prepare 
For the next ages, men of mould 
Well embodied, well ensoulej, 
He cools the present's fiery glow, 
Sets the life-pulse strong but slow : 
Bitter winds and fasts austere 
His quarantines and grottoes, where 
He slowly cures decrepid flesh, 
And brings it infantile and iresh. 
Toil and tempest are the toys 
And games to breathe his stalwart boys : 
They bide their time, and well can prove , 
If need were, their line from Jove ; 
Of the same stuff, and so allayed, 
As that whereof the sun is made, 
And of the fibre, quick and strong, 
Whose throbs are love, whose thrills are song.' 

** And the sons of intellect, 
And the souls of ample fate, 
Whom the future's gates unbar 
Minions of the morning star, 
In his prowess he exults, 
And the multitude insults." 

" Through all time, in light, in gloom, 
Well I hear the approaching feet 
On the flinty pathway beat 
Of him that cometh and shall come." 

" The wild-eyed boy, who in the woods 
Chants his hymn to hill and floods, 
Whom the city's poisoning spleen 
Made not pale, or fat, or lean ; 
Whom the rain and the wind purgetli, 



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Whom the dawn and the day-star urgeth, 

In whose cheek the rose-leaf blusheth, 

In whose feet the lion rusheth, 

Iron arms, and iron mould. 

That know not fear, fatigue, or cold/' 

One man may be better or worse than an- 
other man. but the same causes governed the 
growth of both, namely, wisdom and circum- 
stances. Knowledge of laws and appreciation 
of their universality, and of the blessings which 
follow obedience, and of the misery following 
disobedience to laws constitute wisdom. Lack 
of such knowledge is ignorance. Freedom to 
act according to such wisdom and vitality 
enough to supply necessary tii e and strength 
to reach the goal is controlled by circumstances. 

Wisdom may be attained by personal effort, 
and our strength increased by care and atten- 
tion ; but probably at birth our limits to per- 
fectibility are set. 

True reform must be commenced before gen- 
eration, and whoever fails to study and obey 
the physical laws governing generation will be 
deservedly blamed or cursed by the child of 
ignorance in the coming generation. Simple, 
accurate, and reliable information has lately 
been published in •* The Science of a Xew 
Life," by John Cowan, Cincinnati, in regard to 
this subject, which should be studied by every 
man, woman. and child. Mr. Cowan lacks Em- 
erson's conception of a perfect man, but he sci- 
entifically proves m his chapter on u Conti- 
nence " the truth emphasized by Emerson : 



IS — 



"' Warning to the blind and deaf, 
"Ka written on the iron ]eaf , 
Who drinks of C lipid's nectar cup, 
Loveth downward, and not tip/' 

" Yet shine forever virgin minds, 
Loved by stars and purest winds, 
Which o'er passion throned sedate, 
Have not hazarded their state." 

Emerson describes love. 

" Not with scarfs or perfumed gloves 
Do these celebrate their loves." 

" Their cords of love so public are, 
They intertwine the farthest star ; 
The throbbing- sea, the quaking earth, 
Yield sympathy and signs of mirth : 
Is none so high, so mean is none, 
But feels and seals this union ; 
Even the fell Furies are appeased, 
The good applaud, the lost are eased. 
Love's hearts are faithful but not fond, 
Bound for the just, but not beyond ; 
Not glad, as the low-loving herd, 
Of self in other still preferred, 
But they have heartily designed 
The benefit of broad mankind. 
And they serve men austerely, 
After their own genius clear ly ; 
Without a false humility ; 
For this is love's nobility, — 
Not to scatter bread and gold, 
Goods and raiment bought and sold ; 
But to hold fast his simple sense, 
And .speak the speech of innocence, 
And with hand and body and blood, 
To 'make his bosom-counsel good. 
He that feeds men serve! h few ; 
He serves all who dares be true." 

- " On him the light of star and moon 

Shall fall wiili purer radiance 4<>wn, . 



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All constellations of the sky 
Shed their virtue through his eye. 
Him Nature givcth for defcice 
His formidable innocence ; 
The mounting sap, the she 's, the sea, 
All spheres, all stones, his helpers be ; 
He shall meet the speeding year, 
Without wailing, without fear ; 
He shall be happy in his love, 
Like to like shall joyful prove." 

Is it any wonder tha* such a pure soul dares 
to stand alone. 

" For what need I of book or priest, 
Or siby] from the mummied East, 
When every star is Bethlehem's star." 

Human nature is the same, and seeks the 
same, whether it is the reckless profligate, sac- 
rificing future in the present, the pius saint, 
trying to purchase the future by sacrificing the 
present, or the keen-witted philosopher, trying 
to get into harmony with his surroundings, or. 
trying to bring surroundings into harmony with 
him, realizing that the flower that blooms into 
the greatest beauty and fragrance in the pres- 
ent life will bloom through eternity. 

*' He follows joy and only joy, 
There is no mask but he will wear, 
He invented oaths to swear. 
He paints, he carves, he chants, he prays, 
And holds all stars in his embrace." 

il Line in Nature is not found, 
Unit and universe are round, 
In vain produced, all rays return, 
Evil will bices; and ice will burn.' 

" For the world was built in order, 
And the atoms march in tune ; 



Rhyme the pipe, and time the warder, 
The sun obeys them and the moon. 
Orb and atom forth they prance, 
When they hear from far the rune ; 
None so backward in the troop, 
When the music and the dance 
Reach his place and circumstance, 
But knows the sun-creating sound, 
And, though a pyramid, will bound. " 

Why should the author say more? He has 
tried to weave the underlying principles of 
life in these pages, drawing to a focus around 
man what the ages have been preparing, as his 
small work in the grand movement, and he will 
gladly hail the final book of tables of principles 
which will contain all that is in this book, in 
A. J. Bellows' " Philosophy of Eating," in John 
Cowan's " Science of a New Life," and Ralph 
Waldo Emerson's "Complete Works," 'with 
what new truths science may yet add, arranged 
according to their relation to man's happiness. 
by knowledge of and obedience to which prin- 
ciples the perfect man will yet be generated. 

The following quotations, which close this 
book, express the author's sentiment, and what 
has been once beautifully expressed, needs only 
repetition. 

" But if I could, in severe or cordial mood, 
Lead. you rightly to my altar, 
Where the wisest muses falter. 
And worship that world -warming spark, 
Which dazzles me in midnight dark, 
Equalizing small an \ large, 
While the soul it do.h surcharge, 
Till the poor is wealthy grown, 



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And the hermit never alone — 
The traveler and the road seem one, 
With the errand to be done — 
That were a man's and lover's part, 
That were freedom's whitest chart." 

Let man serve law for man, 
Live for friendship, live for love, 
For truth's and harmony's behoof, 
The State may follow as it can, 
As Olympus follows Jove." 

To-day unbind the captive, 
So only are ye unbound, 
Lift up a people from the dust, 
Trump of their rescue sound." 

0,-what a load 

Of care and toil, 

By lying use bestowed, 

From his shoulders falls, who sees 

The true astronomy — 

The period of peace." 

The sun sets, but sets not his hope, 
Stars rose, his faith was earlier up, 
Fixed on the enormous galaxy, 
Deeper and older seemed his eye, 
And matched his sufferance sublime, 
The taciturnity of time." 

The debt is paid, 

The verdict said, 

The furies laid, 

The plague is stayed, 

All fortunes made. 

Turn the key and bolt the door, 

Sweet is death forevermore. 

Nor haughty hope, nor swart chagrin, 

murdering' hate can enter in. 
All is now secure and fast, 

the Gods can shake the past. 
Flies to the adamantine door, 
Bolted down forevermore. 



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None can re-enter there, 

No thief so politic, 

No Satan with a royal trick, 

Steal in by window, chink, or hole, 

To bind or unbind, add what lacked, 

Insert a leaf, or forge a name, 

New -face or finish what is packed, 

Alter or mend eternal FACT." 



u I have an arrow that will find i}s mark, 
A mastiff that will bite without a bark." 






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